Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Explosives

Goblin dynamite that sweats, hobgoblin pus with a deodorant-stick detonator, a ton of funpowder, and eventually Carl's own entry in the Dungeon Codex. The skill tree the game keeps rewarding, and the reason a marine technician can drive a level-93 elemental into a stairwell.

Segment appearances

Chapter 1 — The vice principal's office
Chapter 4 — Golden Throat
Chapter 5 — Zockau
Chapter 6 — Miriam, Pony and Bianca
Chapter 8 — The Night Wyrm's web
Chapter 9 — Just Wait Until Your Daddy Gets Home
Chapter 10 — No dinosaurs of any kind
Chapter 11 — The Recital
Chapter 17 — The security checkpoint
Chapter 19 — Miss Beatrice
Chapter 27 — Claude Sludgington the Fourth
Chapter 30 — A Valtay landing vessel
Chapter 32 — The Ultimate Training Room
Chapter 35 — Ballroom Blitz
Chapter 36 — Swole
Chapter 38 — Edict
Chapter 50 — Uncle Morty's Insta Lawn-Kill
Chapter 55 — Save the toraline
Chapter 56 — Zerzura
Chapter 58 — The last stall in the women's bathroom
Chapter 61 — Marked for death
Chapter 66 — The Sugar Cube
Chapter 69 — The prize counter

Progression

A pillowcase of gunpowder as a way to see invisible weasels (ch. 2); twenty slices of hobgoblin dynamite (ch. 4); four barrels for a block and a bomb that fires smoke curtains (ch. 5); Nitro Sludge and a thermobaric egg on a cart — 'Boom' (ch. 9); hunter-triggered claymores (ch. 10); a landmine's seeking missiles duct-taped to a head (ch. 22); a weapon that needs minions (ch. 32); Daddy Gets Home out a saferoom door (ch. 35); a smoke curtain with poison for smoke (ch. 50); Spider Stalkers with targets (ch. 60). None of it may enter the ballroom; a snail sniffs for it (ch. 66).